[194649] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Please run windows update now
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue May 16 13:38:46 2017
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From: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu
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To: Brad Knowles <brad@shub-internet.org>
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Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 13:36:20 -0400
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On Tue, 16 May 2017 12:23:36 -0500, Brad Knowles said:
> On May 16, 2017, at 11:40 AM, JoeSox <joesox@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Isn't it true, with any tech product, the more complex features, the less
> > secure it is? Ask yourself why this is the case, and I believe the true
> > issue with tech lays there.
>
> To a degree, this is true. But there are more iOS devices out there than
> there are Windows boxes, and while iOS certainly isn't perfect, it definitely
> has a much better security posture.
Note that most of iOS's improved security posture is due to its design as a
launcher of apps from a tightly controlled source that tightly control the user
experience. It's pretty damned easy to harden Windows as well, if you're going
to hobble it into being a canned app launcher.
Of course, that will piss off everybody who's using Windows as a base for
a generalized computing environment rather than an app-launching kiosk,
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